A woman thought she was going to die after a cow knocked her to the ground then repeatedly stamped on her as she walked her dog in Devon.

Mum-of-two Sharyn Partridge was attacked by the cow and she tried to get back to her car, and feared the animal would kill her as she lay on the ground..

Sharyn says she was saved when a passing van driver stopped and scared the cow away, leaving her very badly bruised and shaken.

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Sharyn, from Barne Barton in Plymouth, was returning to her car after taking her 12-year-old Jack Russell Suki for a walk at Clearbrook near Yelverton when the attack happened, reports plymouthherald .

“I have not been out that way before and thought I would try somewhere different,” she said. “There was a herd of cows walking across so we stayed away and it all seemed fine.

“They seemed happy enough chewing the grass. We passed them and carried on going back to where I had parked the car.”

But as she got closer to the car park, she spotted another cow that appeared anxious. She said: “On the other side of the road I could see this black and white cow and a baby black cow coming up.

“They were trailing behind the others. She was making a noise and then a brown cow turned up.

“She was obviously calling the other cows. I thought I should just stand still with the dog.”

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A few seconds later, the cow charged towards the helpless mum. As the cow came into the car park she was looking at me,” she said.

“I thought that I should just stand still and she would walk past me but she decided not to. She came a bit closer and I had this feeling that something wasn’t right so I picked Suki up.